# برات
## Baluchi
### Noun

برات • (barát)
* brother

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic بَرَاءَة (barāʔa, “license, patent”).

#### Noun

برات • (berât) (definite accusative براتی (berâtı), plural براوات (berevât))
* licence, permit, any legal document or artifact giving official permission to do something
    Synonym: تذكره (tezkere)
* patent, any official document granting an appointment, privilege, right, or some property
* charter, any document issued by an authority conferring rights and privileges on a person

##### Derived terms

* اختراع براتی (ihtirâʼ berâtı, “invention patent”)
* برات كیجه‌سی (berât gecesi, “the fourth Kandil night”)
* براتلو (berâtlı, “holder of a licence or patent”)
* سنجاق براتی (sancak berâtı, “licence of gauging”)
* قونسلوس براتی (konsolos berâtı, “exequatur”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: berat

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “برات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 292
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “berat”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 552
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “berât”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 107
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 258
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Diploma”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 397
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “برات”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 744
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “berat”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 351

### Etymology 2

From Old Church Slavonic Бѣлградъ (Bělgradŭ), from бѣлъ (bělŭ, “white”) + градъ (gradŭ, “fortress, city”), from Proto-Slavic *bělъ and *gordъ. Doublet of بلغراد (belgrad).

#### Proper noun

برات • (berat)
* Berat (a city in south-central Albania)

##### Descendants

* Albanian: Berat
   * English: Berat
* Turkish: Berat

#### Further reading

* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “برات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 351
* Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Berat”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎, 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 107

## Punjabi
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Punjabi) IPA: /bə.ɾäːt̪ᵊ/
* Hyphenation: بَ‧رات

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā).

#### Noun

بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)
* Synonym of جَنْج (jañj, “wedding procession, baraat”).

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian برات (barāt).

#### Noun

بَرات • (barāt) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਬਰਾਤ)
* destiny; fortune
* piece of land or farm given as a prize by a monarch
    Synonym: جاگیر (jāger)
* pension

### References

* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

### Further reading

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “برات”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
* “برات”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

## Urdu
### Alternative forms

* بارات (bārāt)

### Etymology

First attested in c. 1693 as Middle Hindi بَرات (barāt), from Sanskrit वरयात्रा (varayātrā), a compound of वर (vará, “suitor, bridegroom, husband”) +‎ यात्रा (yā́trā, “journey”), literally “the groom's journey [to the bride]”.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /bə.ɾɑːt̪/
* Rhymes: -ɑːt̪
* Hyphenation: بَ‧رات

### Noun

بَرات • (barāt) f (Hindi spelling बरात)
* baraat (marriage procession from the groom's home to the bride's)
* (figurative) party, crowd

#### Declension

Declension of برات :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | برات (barāt) | براتیں (barātẽ) |
| oblique | برات (barāt) | براتوں (barātõ) |
| vocative | برات (barāt) | براتو (barāto) |

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: બરાત (barāt)

### References

* ↑ “برات”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “varayātrā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

### Further reading

* “برات”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برات”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “برات”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “برات”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
* John Shakespear (1834) “برات”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC